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Occultism, Hauntology and the Urban 'Wyrd'

All the films listed and discussed in Occultism, Hauntology and the Urban 'Wyrd', which is chapter 5 of Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange.

"Hauntology presents Britain in the 1970s as a place of skewed morality, of isolated Brutalist zones, of the 'Urban Wyrd' and of paranoid, dystopian deulsions surrounding the treatment of women and children. In other words, Hauntology shows the decade in its true guise; not just the place where Folk Horror was produced most abundantly but itself the most terrifying form of Folk Horror conceivable." - Adam Scovell

For a broader look at folk horror, please see my list: boxd.it/21hha

  • Witchfinder General
  • Robin Redbreast
  • The Wicker Man
  • The Blood on Satan's Claw
  • Hungry Wives
  • The Seventh Victim
  • Night of the Demon
  • The Undead
  • The City of the Dead
  • Night of the Eagle
  • The Devil Rides Out
  • The Witches
  • To the Devil a Daughter
  • The Satanic Rites of Dracula
  • Black Sunday
  • The Devil's Hand
  • Witchcraft
  • Devils of Darkness
  • Curse of the Crimson Altar
  • The Naked Witch
  • Don't Deliver Us from Evil
  • Satanic Pandemonium
  • Satan's Blood
  • The She Beast
  • The Sorcerers
  • Eye of the Devil
  • Cry of the Banshee
  • Mark of the Devil
  • The Dunwich Horror
  • The Devils
  • The Devils of Loudun
  • Virgin Witch
  • The Ballad of Tam Lin
  • Satan's Slave
  • Something Weird
  • Mark of the Witch
  • The Brotherhood of Satan
  • Daughters of Satan
  • Blood Orgy of the She-Devils
  • Warlock Moon
  • London in the Raw
  • Legend of the Witches
  • The Evil Dead
  • Witchcraft '70
  • Rosemary's Baby
  • The Exorcist
  • The Omen
  • Quatermass II
  • Quatermass and the Pit
  • The Stone Tape
  • Beasts
  • Jubilee
  • Frenzy
  • Scream and Scream Again
  • Villain
  • Sitting Target
  • Theatre of Blood
  • O Lucky Man!
  • A Clockwork Orange
  • The Offence
  • Death Line
  • Frightmare
  • Fright
  • The Plague of the Zombies
  • The Unlimited Dream Company
  • Lonely Water
  • Watership Down
  • Red Shift
  • The Long Good Friday
  • Unearthly Stranger
  • Sewing Machine
  • Searching
  • The Finishing Line